*CWU REACTION TO THE SOWETAN HEADLINE STORY* * *
*12March 2010* The Communication Workers Union (CWU) abhors the Sowetan’s headline story “SACP apologises for booing Malema”, penned by Zukile Majova. This headline is misleading and personifies gutter journalism engulfing our country post-1994 democratic dispensation. We are interested to know if both Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya and Willie Bokaba (senior editors at the Sowetan) we were ‘high’ when their approved this story by Majova. It is disheartened to see this esteemed publication, the Sowetan, which posses reach history owing to its predecessor The World Newspapers is degenerating and acts as a mouthpiece of a certain African chauvinist, populist and bully cabal within our movement. In no way given the outcomes and the statements issued by our vanguard – SACP and the Alliance leader – the ANC – indicates that the SACP apologises to ANCYL President Julius Malema. In fact Julius Malema was never booed in the SACP Special National Congress as a person or a leader of the ANCYL. This was his self-invention assisted by the like-minded journalist like Majova to liquidate the key issues and deliberations of the Special National Congress which sought to embarrass SACP National Chairperson Cde Gwede Mantashe and the entire SACP leadership. We support the thrust of the summary as indicated in the statement issued by both the SACP and ANC after the bilateral. The summary says “*the President of the ANC in summarising indicated that mistakes have been made on both sides. The SACP, in the context of the discussions, re-affirmed its regret at the booing that occurred at the Special National Congress in December 2009. Both parties agreed that there would be no further personalised public attacks on each other”*. This we fully support and Majova should reported on as opposed to being creative and insults our intelligence as the advanced detachment of the working class and the poor. As CWU we strongly believe that a refresher course should be arranged for Sowetan’s journalists and others to improve on their writing and reporting skills. Contact: *Matankana Mothapo* *National Spokesperson – 082 759 0900* -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
